Eddie the Eagle not so much
Burroughs had the Ugly Spirit chasing him, then it turns up as a Richard H Kirk work. The Ugly Spirit is like Jung’s shadow roided right up. Exorcism in a sweat ritual has an almost Lynch (Judy) vibe. Can you begin to imagine it? It seems insane not to at least investigate these presences for a period during our very short time on this rock, even as an anthropology
How do we even define success as failure? Force the hand of chance etc? Everyone fails in life, it’s how you learn. Success as failure seems the foundation for cult-status a lot - fore-gotten, occluded and/or hidden in plain sight